The Force of Reason: Oriana Fallaci - Hardcover

Fallaci, Oriana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847827534 ISBN 13: 9780847827534

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, 2006

Synopsis

Following the unprecedented success of her last book, The Rage and the Pride, comes The Force of Reason, in which Fallaci tackles such current and controversial topics as European anti-Americanism and the influx of Islam into Western society. She launches an attack on the establishment of political correctness, which she dubs the "Modern Inquisition."

The Force of Reason is the much-anticipated follow-up to fiery journalist Oriana Fallaci's The Rage and The Pride (2002), which enjoyed enormous success in the United States and topped best-seller lists in countries throughout Europe.

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About the Author

As a war correspondent Oriana Fallaci has covered the great majority of our era's conflicts: from Vietnam to the Middle East; from the 1965 Hungarian insurrection to the 1970s Latin-American upheavals; from the 1968 massacre in Mexico City, where she was seriously wounded, to the Gulf War. Her books, which include popular novels, have been translated into twenty-one languages.

From the Back Cover

Oriana Fallaci is back with her much-anticipated follow up to The Rage and the Pride, her powerful post-September 11 manifesto. The genesis for The Force of Reason was a postscript entitled Due Anni Dopo (Two Years Later), which was intended as a brief appendix to the thirtieth edition of The Rage and the Pride (2002). Once Ms. Fallaci completed the postscript, she chose to expand it into a book, a continuation of her ideas set in motion in The Rage and the Pride.In The Force of Reason Fallaci takes aim at the many attacks and death threats she received after the publication of The Rage and the Pride. Ms. Fallaci begins by identifying herself with one Master Cecco, the author of a heretical book who was burnt at the stake during the Inquisition seven centuries ago on account of his beliefs, and proceeds with a rigorous analysis of the burning of Troy and the creation of a Europe that, to her judgment, is no longer her familiar homeland but rather a place best called Eurabia, a soon-to-be colony of Islam (with Italy as its stronghold). Ms. Fallaci explores her ideas in historical, philosophical, moral, and political terms, courageously addressing taboo topics with sharp logic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847827534
• ISBN 13: 9780847827534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 290